This important new edition introduces your graduate students to new levels of professional practice. The text is focused on common roles of the various specialties (NP, CNS, CRNA, and CNM). It addresses contemporary issues the APN will encounter in practice, such as opportunities in new practice areas, health policy issues, and legal influence on ethical practice.

KEY FEATURES:

New chapter on caring for a diverse population and its effect on health care delivery and outcomes

Legal chapter includes ethical aspects to give your student a broader vision of their role as a APN

Offers practical business advice for negotiating salaries as an APN or starting a new practice

Exercises focus on critical thinking and include activities to apply knowledge, such as performing critiques, conducting peer reviews, using analogies, drawing models to depict relationships among concepts, composing position papers and professional practice statements, and engaging in argument and debate

Other Editions for Advanced Practice Nursing : Emphasizing Common Roles

This important new edition introduces your graduate students to new levels of professional practice. The text is focused on common roles of the various specialties (NP, CNS, CRNA, and CNM). It addresses contemporary issues the APN will encounter in practice, such as opportunities in new practice areas, health policy issues, and legal influence on ethical practice.

KEY FEATURES:

New chapter on caring for a diverse population and its effect on health care delivery and outcomes

Legal chapter includes ethical aspects to give your student a broader vision of their role as a APN

Offers practical business advice for negotiating salaries as an APN or starting a new practice

Exercises focus on critical thinking and include activities to apply knowledge, such as performing critiques, conducting peer reviews, using analogies, drawing models to depict relationships among concepts, composing position papers and professional practice statements, and engaging in argument and debate